Asbach (ship)

Asbach

The Asbach in Cologne

Ship data flag  Malta other ship names Marksburg (1996-2002) Ship type Day trip boat home port Valletta , Malta  Owner KD Europe S.à rl Shipping company Cologne-Düsseldorfer Shipyard Shipyard De Hoop Build number 365 building-costs 8 million DM Launch April 12, 1996 Commissioning May 10, 1996

Ship dimensions and crew length 68.13 m ( Lüa ) width 11.40 m Draft Max. 1.25 m displacement 604  t

Machine system machine 2 × MAN D2840LE, 346 kW each Machine performance 692 kW (941 hp) propeller 2 × Aquamaster-Rauma US381 1 × De Gerlien van Tiem (bow thruster)

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 600

Others Registration numbers ENI 04033080

The Asbach is an excursion ship that is operated on behalf of the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG . It is mainly used in the planned service on the Middle Rhine between Koblenz and Mainz . Due to its circulation, it is used in weekend traffic on the longest route from Mainz to Cologne served by the shipping company . The Asbach is the structurally identical sister ship of the Loreley , which also started operations in 1996.

history

The Asbach and her sister ship Loreley together at the Cologne pier

The passenger ship was built in 1995 and 1996 by the De Hoop shipyard in Rijnwaarden under construction number 365. The keel was laid in November 1995, the launch on April 12 of the following year. As a result of extremely low water , the shipyard had previously welded an approximately ten-meter-long floating box to the stern of the ship for safety, but this did not prevent it from touching the bottom when it was launched. The shipyard delivered the ship on April 28, 1996, despite slight damage to the ship's bottom. On May 2nd and 3rd, the shipping company checked the operational safety by means of an empty trip from Cologne-Niehl to Bad Salzig . The next day, the Cologne-Düsseldorfer used them for testing on a plan trip between Bad Breisig and Mainz . During the test drives, the shipping company did not find any adverse effects on the operation of the ship, so that the ship was named Marksburg on May 9, 1996 by Tilla von Golz, the then managing director of the German Castle Association Braubach in Koblenz . At the same time, the Cologne-Düsseldorfer took over the ship from the shipyard. From May 10th, the shipping company started using the Marksburg in planned service, mainly on the Middle Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim .

As part of the sponsorship of Asbach GmbH , the Marksburg was renamed Asbach at the beginning of 2002 and later also designed in the colors of the Rüdesheim company. In December 2008, the ship was sold to the wholly owned subsidiary KD Europe S.à rl in Luxembourg and then registered in Valletta , Malta in January 2009 . Since the ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer cannot reach their home port due to lack of seaworthiness, they are serviced in Niehler Hafen in Cologne.

Furnishing

The Asbach near Sankt Goar

The Asbach is a three-deck passenger ship with two salons on the closed main deck. With normal seating, there is space on the front main deck 278 and the slightly higher rear main deck, which is equipped with a bar, for 141 passengers. Below this part of the ship there is an intermediate deck about 1.40 m high , which is used as a storage room for bicycles. The open-air deck, which can be partially covered with an awning, is designed for 150 people. At the back or at the back is a small playground that has been equipped with a slide. In the lower deck, six crew cabins are connected to the bow thruster room on both sides. Adjacent to this is the ship's kitchen, from which a staircase leads to the main deck for the staff. The stairs in the central nave give passengers access from the main deck to the adjoining cloakroom, the ship's office and the toilets. Aft, in addition to the engine room, there are also refrigeration and storage rooms, which are connected to the main deck via an additional staff staircase. Drinking water, fuel and holding tanks were installed in the space between the lower deck and the ship's floor. All aft areas of the ship can be reached by a starboard elevator, even for people with reduced mobility. The usable area of the ship is around 630 m², the ceiling height is 2.20 to 3 m. The maximum passenger capacity is given as 600 people.

technology

The ship is powered by two V-10-cylinder diesel engines of 346 kW each from the MAN D2840LE series via two Rauma US381 / 1500 Aquamaster rudder propellers. The bow thruster from the Dutch manufacturer De Gerlien van Tiem has a 230 kW MAN drive. The ship is 68.13 m long, 11.40 m wide and 10.30 m high. The draft is given at full load with 1.25 m.

literature

On the way near Cologne

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004. Self-published, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9 .
• Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG. Schardt, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-89841-035-8 .

Web links

Commons : Asbach (Schiff)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Page about Asbach on the Köln-Düsseldorfer website , accessed on August 9, 2020
• Page about the Asbach on www.debinnenvaart.nl , accessed on October 20, 2010 (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826–2004 , pp. 883–885
2. ↑ http://www.kd.de/fileadmin/user_upload/redaktion/Downloads/geschaeftsberichte/KD_GB 2002.pdf (link not available)
3. ↑ Annual report 2009 according to IFRS of Köln-Düsseldorfer, p. 8 , accessed on August 11, 2012
4. ↑ KD with Maltese flag , Kölnische Rundschau of April 8, 2009 , accessed on April 24, 2017
5. ^ Page about Asbach on the Cologne-Düsseldorfer website ( memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 7, 2011